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    Responsibility for an outcome is only ascribable to an ag... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→States are responsible for promoting and protecting the health of individuals residing within their jurisdictions.

    Responsibility for an outcome is only ascribable to an agent that has genuine causal power and normative authority over the conditions producing it.

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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires agents to have influenced outcomes through their choices, not merely been present during their occurrence.
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    • 2.Without normative authority, an agent cannot properly deliberate about what they should do, making responsibility meaningless.
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    • 3.Holding agents responsible when they lack causal power leads to unjust blame and undermines the purpose of accountability.
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    • 1.Shared responsibility exists when multiple agents jointly produced an outcome without each having individual causal power over all conditions.
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    • 2.Moral responsibility can attach to failing to prevent foreseeable harms even when the agent didn't directly cause the initial conditions.
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    • 3.Institutional and systemic responsibility require holding entities accountable for outcomes shaped by complex factors beyond any individual's control.
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